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Desert Mage

@desertmage65.bsky.social
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Avid reader, cat lover, Trump hater. Want to live long enough to piss on his grave.

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Desert Mage @desertmage65.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Here are the polls posted today to the Real Clear Politics website. Not a bad one for Democrats, and if that Economist poll showing a generic ballot preference of 15 points in their favor is close to accurate, we're looking at a once-in-a-decade blue tsunami.
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Desert Mage @desertmage65.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Put Big Balls in a vice. He’ll squeal like a little piggy.
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Desert Mage @desertmage65.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Shoot this directly into my veins.
apnews.com
House Democrats plan vast oversight of Trump administration. Impeachment is an option
House Democrats are preparing a vast oversight agenda if the party sweeps control in the November elections.
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Desert Mage @desertmage65.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
When the Democrats take the House in November, they're going to have a rich target field for impeachments. I'd start with the guy who looks like an old catcher's mitt and sounds like a dying bullfrog.
nytimes.com
‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission (Gift Article)
The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.
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Desert Mage @desertmage65.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is ethnic cleansing, à la Stephen Miller. He needs to face justice for this.
nytimes.com
A Quiet ICE Surge That Unfolded ‘Everywhere All at Once’ This Summer (Gift Article)
A review of dozens of incidents caught on camera sheds new light on a largely invisible crackdown.
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 25/09/2026
Amnesty International calls for ICE to be abolished
lemonde.fr
Amnesty International calls for ICE to be abolished
In a report titled 'We Had Whistles, They Had Guns,' the NGO documents widespread human rights violations committed by ICE in the United States.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Sad excuse for journalism: Big profile of DOGE lord doesn’t say a word about all the damage he did. And it was not an “ill fated cost-cutting effort.” It was a malignant, catastrophic attack on the government and its workers by arrogant and ignorant assholes. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
washingtonpost.com
He spent 11 months inside DOGE. Now he wants to set the record straight.
In his first major interview about his tell-all memoir, Tyler Hassen describes the culture clash surrounding DOGE’s mission and the backlash that followed.
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Desert Mage @desertmage65.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A bunch of guys in hard hats standing around and he's raving and gesturing mutely. This us pure comedy gold. Every attempt at revenge against his enemies just involves this stupid loser stepping on his own dick.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is APPALLING. The Trump administration is detaining multiple random Somali immigrants with no criminal record at Guantanamo Bay, seemingly because the White House ordered ICE specifically to detain Somalis at Gitmo as part of its effort to punish an ethnic group Trump has attacked.
According to Mohamed, guards at Guantanamo have said they are being held there because that's what officials in Washington, DC, want. "There's no other nation, only Somali people in Guantanamo Bay, in the prison," he told me. "And when we ask them why we are here, they tell us... Washington...ordered to keep Somali people in the Guantanamo Bay."
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
With 50 days until the midterms, I urge you all to: 1) Help get out the vote. 2) Protect our electoral machinery from interference. 3) Not succumb to complacency, defeatism, or cynicism. We are the only ones who can end this nightmare. We are the leaders we’ve been waiting for.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
if this was in an evangelical movie about the antichrist you'd think it'd be a bit much
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Just further enshrining the canonical conservative belief that being called racist is worse than being racist.
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Desert Mage @desertmage65.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
If you're wondering why Hair Furor is offering 5K bribes to vote GOP, this poll will make everything clear.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Oh wait, someone has thought of this before!
18 U.S. Code § 597 Expenditures to influence voting U.S. Code

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Whoever makes or offers to make an expenditure to any person, either to vote or withhold his vote, or to vote for or against any candidate; and Whoever solicits, accepts, or receives any such expenditure in consideration of his vote or the withholding of his vote- Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; and if the violation was willful, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.
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Desert Mage @desertmage65.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The people who orchestrated this monstrous assault on human dignity need to be brought to justice.
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Desert Mage @desertmage65.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Stephen Miller killed this kid as surely as if he’d shot him in the heart. There’s no hell hot enough…
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Desert Mage @desertmage65.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The monsters who did this need to experience the same treatment themselves. Tom Homan needs to find himself stranded in Liberia. Stephen Miller needs to wake up in Equatorial Guinea. Let them try and make a new life for themselves there.
nytimes.com
Deportees Sent to Liberia Recount Harrowing Details of U.S. Expulsion and Treatment by ICE (Gift Article)
Ten deportees said they experienced or witnessed what they called abusive or violent treatment by ICE. They spent months in detention, they said, before being sent to nations where they had no ties.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
It's a complex message to convey and designed to be that way. So what can EVERY DEM say instead, instead of attacking Twitch streamers they've never even watched: THE WORST OF WHAT DONALD TRUMP IS DOING HAS NOT EVEN BEGUN TO BE FELT YET
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Desert Mage @desertmage65.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
This is what happens when you put a crazed ideologue in charge of the nation's healthcare system. It will take a generation to fix the problems he has caused. In the list of administration malefactors to impeach first, this guy belongs near the top.
politico.com
RFK Jr.’s Health Department empowers political appointees like never before
Political roles are way up. Career staffing is way down, despite a push to hire after last year’s downsizing.
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John Carl Baker @johncarlbaker.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This is a machine to ethnically cleanse the country - and anyone who pretends otherwise is kidding themselves
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
We are a broken nation. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians were living and working legally, paying taxes, and contributing. Haiti remains wholly unsafe. But Trump hates Haitians, and the White House wanted videos of Black people in chains, so they stripped them of status and turned on the cameras.
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Haiti TPS has been TERMINATED.
Those with terminated TPS are in our nation Illegally. They have two options: LEAVE IMMEDIATELY or be DEPORTED.
DHS.GOV/CBРНОМЕ

Underneath is a screenshot of a video showing two Haitian men in chains being led to the aircraft. I didn’t post the video, but it’s vile.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Food companies wanted deregulation. Now there are dozens of recalls across the country. Mining companies wanted deregulation. Now the black lung rate is at a 45-year high. Financial companies wanted deregulation. Now financial losses to fraud are the highest on record. Noticing a pattern?
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Desert Mage @desertmage65.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
This is how you do it.
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Desert Mage @desertmage65.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Overheard at movie pitch meeting: "OK, hear me out. It's a new COINTELPRO, only set in the world of Idiocracy."
newrepublic.com
Trump’s Secret Police Spying on Americans? It’s Darker than We Knew.
Court papers reveal that the Department of Homeland Security’s covert surveillance of anti-ICE groups is much darker than it first appeared. Welcome to Donald Trump’s America.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
It’ll come down even faster. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/u...
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Trump’s Ballroom Is Rising at Breakneck Speed: 20 Hours a Day, 7 Days a Week
Although the fate of the ballroom is tied up in court, the Trump administration argues that the project is too far along to be stopped now.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
the play here is to make ossoff defensive by calling him sexist, something liberals care about but they don't. The problem is, they *used* to pretend to care and now they're like "let's rip up anti-discrimination law, repeal the 19th and force most women to be homemakers" bsky.app/profile/matt...
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Desert Mage @desertmage65.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I have to be honest, I find Jon Ossoff a trifle stiff and humorless, but he’s obviously brilliant and articulate, and he gets my vote because all he had to do was just say three words and the MAGAverse spontaneously combusted. 
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Desert Mage @desertmage65.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
It's not an unreasonable hypothesis that the federal government actively wants to sicken and kill its population. And so the greatest republic on earth ends not with a bang but a splat.
nytimes.com
How Cyclospora Evaded the U.S. Food Safety System to Sicken Thousands (Gift Article)
The Trump administration delayed a rule last year that could have sped up the effort to pinpoint the source of the contamination. Critics charge that food safety oversight has eroded overall.
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Alex Russell @infrequently.org · 15/08/2026
Stephen Miller deserves to spend the rest of his natural life fighting a legal system charging him of crimes he didn't commit in a language he does not speak, alone, and without counsel: publicnotice.co/p/stephen-miller…
publicnotice.co
Stephen Miller's secret campaign against helpless kids
That it's happening in the shadows doesn't make it less of a moral blight.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
It's an all hands on deck moment. Lawyers need to do their job to protect elections. Courts must do their job to ensure the law is followed. And, voters must make sure they have a plan to vote and turn out.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
If you find yourself dooming, it's worth recalling that Trump has neither the legal nor (more importantly) the practical ability to effectively federalize & rig the midterms. But if you find yourself complacent, it's important to note he can cause a whole lot of chaos by illegally trying & failing.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
If you’re hiding in a catering truck when you control the most powerful military in the world, you aren’t winning.
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Desert Mage @desertmage65.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Appalling cruelty — and all to fund more tax cuts for the rich.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Running out of body bags, using forklifts to transfer corpses into makeshift morgues, a mortician conducting 200 funerals in a month when he usually does 30, crematories running at double capacity… And these senators just want to memory-hole it all www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/n...
nytimes.com
‘We Ran Out of Space’: Bodies Pile Up as N.Y. Struggles to Bury Its Dead (Gift Article)
The coronavirus crisis is overwhelming New York’s system for burying the dead.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Here is a full list of every state that DOJ had sued and lost for access to their voter file: Arizona California Connecticut Kentucky Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island Virginia West Virginia Wisconsin
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Desert Mage @desertmage65.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
It took Christopher Nolan 2 1/2 years to make The Odyssey. During that same period, approximately two dozen colleges and universities in the US eliminated their classics studies units.
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
"If my opponents win, more Americans could get full representation in our participatory democracy, and that would be bad for me" may be the most honest campaign pitch he's ever delivered
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
a cabinet of billionaires thinks that its a good idea to set up a pipeline for a servant underclass. they also have strong beliefs that your genetic makeup predetermines where you should be placed in life. if you wrote all this in a work of dystopian fiction, you'd sound like you were nuts.
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Desert Mage @desertmage65.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
This is what he looks like now – the shambling, broken, monstrous thing that rules us, a Halloween pumpkin that’s been left on the stoop for a month to melt and rot. How much longer, oh Lord, how much longer?
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Desert Mage @desertmage65.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
We should get down on our knees every day and thank God for this man. His battle to protect our democracy has been positively heroic.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Have to wonder what the thinking is inside the White House for a shit show like this. Aside from the lying and the comical conspiracy theories, Trump just looks too tired and used up and deteriorating to see anything else but an aging sore loser
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Desert Mage @desertmage65.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
It would be perversely appropriate if this crapulent regime ends in an orgy of explosive diarrhea.
huffpost.com
CDC Expects Number Of Cases Of Cyclosporiasis To Rise
The current U.S. outbreak, which began on May 1, is centered in Michigan, with Ohio and New York also reporting high numbers of cases.
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Desert Mage @desertmage65.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Elon Musk murdered these people as surely as if he fed them into a wood chipper himself.
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Desert Mage @desertmage65.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
GOOD RIDDANCE.
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Desert Mage @desertmage65.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
The murderous butchers killed another one. Abolish ICE. And then prosecute these motherfuckers.
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Desert Mage @desertmage65.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Why did we get this timeline, why?
huffpost.com
MAGA Man Arrested For Masturbating At Trump's America 250 Spectacle
The niche social media personality was charged with "lewd, indecent, or obscene acts" after multiple witnesses reported his depraved behavior.
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Desert Mage @desertmage65.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
So the SC majority found the civil jury's judgment that Trump is a sexual assailant who should pay his victim millions in damages was a sound verdict. This is the same person they've enabled and continue to enable with unfettered executive power. Tells you something about their values, doesn't it?
nytimes.com
Supreme Court Lets $5 Million Sex Abuse Verdict Against Trump Stand
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
As with some other things, i suspect if we have another dem president we will discover that the court did not so much transfer power to the executive as to themselves, ie they will find novel bullshit reasons to block a dem president the same way the find novel bullshit reasons to enable trump
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